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Second Life collapses time. Case in point: my almost-lifelong effort to find or start a writers’ group for sharing and feedback.
For creative writers, the value of sharing their writing with other writers and getting feedback, support, and helpful critique is immeasurable. Some writers even say it’s essential for getting published. Whether that’s true or not, [...]

“Serving ketchup” is what members of my oldest email chat group call it when we write a post that tries to “catch up” with the conversations we’ve been neglecting. So here’s the first WRITERS IN THE (virtual) SKY “ketchup” post!
Update on the SL Events for Writers Calendar
Slowly, but surely, all the busy writers who organize [...]

I confess: When I first saw the news item about Second Life in The Writer magazine’s most recent issue, I was a bit ticked off — and then my holier-than-thou self-righteousness took over and quickly sparked a full-blown exodus of all life forms from the room. (OK, that’s exaggerating a bit, but it still wasn’t a […]

Roughly eight months ago, I tiptoed around a hedge and peaked at my first poetry reading in Second Life. I was still a newbie who knew nothing about HUDs that let avatars know who else is around, so I thought I was hiding pretty good. That is, until I heard a woman’s voice say, “Welcome, […]

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Joan Kremer is a professional business/ nonfiction writer, novelist, short story writer, editor of an online literary journal, and most recently co-owner of the Story Mountain Center for Writers in Second Life® (where I go by the avatar name Alas Zerbino, whose picture appears above).

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